--- title: Money on its own is worth nothing to eat or play with; it is a tool… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: Money on its own is worth nothing to eat or play with; it is a tool for trading, and it is only useful when other people have things to sell. Who acts: Money, value, other people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Money, value, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:4 # text = Money on its own is worth nothing to eat or play with; it is a tool for trading, and it is only useful when other people have things to sell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 11 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Money on value's own | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | value | a tool | | | | for trading | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | value | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | other people | things | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 7 | **sell** | to-infinitive | other people *not said here* | things *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What money is and why people accept it, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/3/) - next →: [What money is and why people accept it, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/)